His greed and ambition grows when the witches tell him he will soon be king so he does off and kills Duncan and Banguo. He is weak easily influenced but left to himself; he would not have killed Duncan. His wife greatly influenced him to kill as her ideas are horrific
In the movie ‘Macbeth on the Estate’ the war at the beginning of the play is represented as a gang breaking into flats and beating people up.
Macbeth enters the flats first which shows he is a leader. The beats in the music show speed of movement. Instead of swords and armour, we have pipes, hatchets and pepper spray.
As they fight, Macbeth smashes the TV screen which has the National Lottery Draw being made shown on it. This represents ‘chance’.
Duncan is shown smoking in a bar and looks like a fat lazy slob who doesn’t have a care in the world about anything, which is extremely weird for a ‘King’ as you were expecting a posh, well dressed person in a beautiful, luxurious house with servants.
It shows a close up of Duncan’s hand and he has a ring on his finger (which he later gives to Macbeth for bringing victory upon his gang) and the word ‘love’ is tattooed on his hand.
The first sighting of the three witches is seen as they smash a car window, then later in the film we see them again shouting Macbeth’s name as he is walking through flats. He is once again first to enter flats in search of the witches and is last to leave after seeing them
The witches are not scary as they are only children but we were expecting old women in dark rags that would be ugly.
I expected Macbeth to be a man of age 40 with a beard who was well dressed and had neat hair but what I saw was new and entertaining. He was young (around 23 years old) wearing stylish clothes for our time period and had a mop of unneat curly hair
He did not live up to my expectations but was quite entertaining to watch as the film has taking place during my time period which I have lived in so I understood what was happening easier than the book.
Steven Nelson
5F